Feedback on ritchie park elementary
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Anonymous
+1 I don't understand the people who complain about not enough volunteers but they themselves don't volunteer. I have never served in the PTA, but appreciate all the people who do it. I have volunteered at school functions/class/lunch. |
Anonymous
I am in Board in PTA outside of RM cluster, I gets frustrated when people complain about how things can be done better, but not willing to get involved to make it better. Not everyone has to run for board positions, but like you did , get involved in school functions/class/lunch etc. Involvement at all levels helps to have a vibrant community and kids benefit from that. |
Anonymous
Your understanding is totally wrong. Only one Beall PTA board member is selected for Rustin PTA board position. As far as I know, that person is the only one with PTA board experience among everyone selected for Rustin. Not having experience can be good and bad both, but your understanding is way off target. Rustin board has very little experience and ride will be a bumpy one. Anyway I couldn't attend the vote, but happy to hear that multiple parents ran for various positions. That's not the norm in most PTA's election so posters shouldn't use this example to pick on RP PTA. |
Anonymous
That info was relayed to Woodley Gardens families encouraging them to run for Beall PTA positions. Maybe it was exaggerated. |
Anonymous
Are you saying that Rustin's entire board has only one board member with previous experience? There were 30 PTA board members in Beall, RP and CG. I am sure many of them are going to Rustin. How come only 1 out of 30 is in Rustin board? I was present during voting, but this information was not shared before the vote. I liked the on floor nominations, but ideal would have been to have a background information of every single person interested in position distributed to members in advance. Then we could have made informed decision. |
Anonymous
In Rustin, 4 board members are from CG and 4 are from Beall and 1 from RP. That's what I remember. Also, based on above posts, only one Beall PTA board member is in Rustin Board. WG families should surely run for Beall PTA positions otherwise it starts looking like some friends and neighbors coming together and make it a clique. |
Anonymous
Based on the maps, it makes sense that more Beall parents would be on the PTA. Only two small RP zones now are zoned for Rustin, whereas Rustin will have larger areas from Beall. It almost looks like Beall was split 50/50 per the map. As for former CG parents in the PTA, they are part of CI, and my guess is that such parents are heavily invested/involved in their kids's schools (which is a good thing). |
Anonymous
| This thread has gotten crazy off topic. |
Anonymous
don't they all. |
Anonymous
Why you don’t like going to a school where 18yr old freshman are getting arrested for murder, right in School campus? What about the MS13 fights? Oh wait, beating up teachers too? It is a glorious school. 
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Anonymous
I have an older child at CGES and only recognize one of the CGES names. That person has volunteered with the school before and she'll be a wonderful PTA Board member for Rustin. I'm sure other CGES parents will also do a great job on the Rustin board, but don't recognize the names as having volunteered. Maybe they volunteered with the younger grades and I just don't know about it. |
Anonymous
The plan is to even the SES at ALL high schools looking to get rezoned. All of Crown, Gaithersburg, RM, Wootton, Seneca Valley, QO, Northeastern, Clarksburg, etc.... Also Gaithersburg is about 60 kids over capacity at a 2400 kid school. Hardly over capacity. RM is much more over. The zones will trickle down by SES levels. Otherwise Crown, Wootton, RM, QO will still be good high schools while Gaithersburg remains a shit show. The board will never let that happen and King Farm is a mile closer to Gaithersburg High. I will be watching with popcorn because the RM side of King Farm is going to lose their minds. And yes, CG could all move to Gaithersburg if an entire ES is moved to Crown High school. Definitely possible. |
Anonymous
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Ritchie Park will never turn it around until the principal is gone. She isn’t terrible, but she isn’t great, and just creates a blah environment. The school counselor needs to go too.
The new VP is good, but we need fresh blood that can make the school have some spirit, and encourage less changeover. I am jealous of the families moving. That new school will be great. |
Anonymous
The school counselor is awful. |